A holistic, body/mind integrating psychotherapist and art therapist, my 23 years experience with individuals and couples shapes collaborations in which the client's own wisdom-knowing guides unique journeys into wholeness.

My experiential psychodynamic approach to depth healing and integration incorporates gestalt, applied existential psychology, creativity, guided imagery and dreamwork to resolve family of origin issues, developmental trauma, major life transitions, and explore potent life experiences such as relationships, chronic illness, eldering and identifying as GLBT.

I also facilitate classes based on Artlife Creation, exploring the intuitive creativity inherent throughout our lives, and authored the Sounds True teaching set Artlife: Creative Journeys for Life Healing (http://www.soundstrue.com/shop/Artlife/4273.pd)

I'm a nature-based therapist who is passionate about working with the LGBTQIA+ community, those struggling with attachment wounds, grief, identity & spiritual emergencies, sexuality, PTSD, self-worth, depression, anxiety, and difficult life transitions. I am dedicated to anti-oppression work both personally & professionally. From this perspective, I see my clients not as broken, but rather as expressing the symptoms of an unwell cultural ecosystem.

I use a balance of evidenced-based modalities with soulcentric ways of moving through trauma and navigating the waters grief in my work. Through collaboration and gentle guidance, I take a transpersonal, somatic, trauma-informed, humanistic, experiential and strengths-based approach to helping people find their own authentic path to healing and wholing.

In my practice, Safe Haven Therapy, my focus is on supporting highly sensitive people, neurodivergent adults, and those navigating the intersection of chronic physical and mental health challenges. Many of my clients carry deep exhaustion from masking, overextending, or abandoning themselves to fit in. My work centers on creating belonging, restoring self-trust, and honoring sensitivity as a gift - not a problem to solve.

With 30 years of experience in working with traumatized populations, Marilee brings a diverse set of talents to her work with individuals, couples, children and families. She has extensive experience in treating psychological trauma and dissociative disorders.

Marilee integrates clinical hypnosis into her work, treating issues as diverse as depression, panic attacks, acute and chronic pain, performance anxiety, trauma sequelae, preparation for and recovery from surgery.

Her main practice is adult and family psychotherapy, specializing in treating trauma and all the dissociative disorders. Therapy modalities include solution-focused, client-centered, family systems, psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, ego state hypnosis, expressive arts, EFT, motivational interviewing.